Influenza: Rapid Diagnosis and Treatment in the Here and Now

Treating Influenza

Course List

CME Information

Provider Statement

This continuing medical education activity is provided by

Support Statement

This activity is supported by an educational grant from Genentech, Inc.

Target Audience

The intended audience for the activity is family practitioners, general practitioners,
internists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other health care professionals
involved in the management of patients with influenza.

Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion of this activity, participants should be better able to:

Utilize diagnostic assays for influenza that have demonstrated sensitivity, specificity,
and convenience.

Examine the mechanisms of action, efficacy, and safety of conventional and new antiviral
agents used to treat influenza.

Incorporate antiviral therapies into practice for prophylaxis, prevention, and treatment
of influenza to reduce the duration of illness as well as complications.

Overview

Influenza places a substantial burden on the health of people in the United States each year,
despite its variable impact. However, an unmet need exists for better and more rapid diagnostic
modalities as well as antiviral therapies that can effectively treat an infection to minimize
the risk of complications. In this continuing medical education activity, expert faculty will
discuss diagnostic modalities as well as the current and emerging therapies for treating
patients with influenza.

John J. Russell, MD
Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine
Thomas Jefferson University
Sidney Kimmel School of MedicinePhiladelphia, PA
Chair, Department of Family Medicine
Program Director, Family Medicine Residency
Abington – Jefferson HealthAbington, PA

Signed disclosures are on file at Vindico Medical Education, Office of Medical Affairs and Compliance.

Accreditation

Vindico Medical Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical
Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

How to Participate in This Activity and Obtain CME Credit

To participate in this CME activity, you must read the objectives, answer the pretest questions,
watch the videos, and complete the CME posttests and evaluation. Provide only one (1) correct
answer for each question. A satisfactory score is defined as answering the posttest
question correctly for each video. Upon receipt of the completed materials, if a satisfactory
score on the posttest is achieved, Vindico Medical Education will issue an AMA PRA Category 1
Credit(s)™ Certificate.

Credit Designation

Vindico Medical Education designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.75 AMA PRA
Category 1 Credit(s)™, (0.25 per video). Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate
with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Successful completion of this CME activity enables the participant to earn up to 0.75 MOC points
(0.25 per video) in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of
Certification (MOC) program. Participants who opt-in will earn MOC points equivalent to the
amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility
to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC
points.

American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) accepts certificates of participation for
educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ from organizations accredited
by the ACCME.

This enduring material is approved for 1 year from the date of original release, September 30,
2019 to September 29, 2020.

MIPS Qualifying Activity

Completion of this accredited CME activity meets the expectations of an Accredited Safety or
Quality Improvement Program (IA_PSPA_28) for the Merit-based Incentive Payment Program (MIPS).
Participants who successfully complete the activity and its performance assessment will receive
printable documentation of successful completion for MIPS self-reporting.
To meet the criteria for improvement activities in the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System
(MIPS) of QPP, accredited CME providers need to implement activities that:

address a quality or safety gap that is supported by a needs assessment or problem analysis, or support the completion of such a needs assessment as part of the activity;

have specific, measurable aim(s) for improvement;

include interventions intended to result in improvement;

include data collection and analysis of performance data to assess the impact of the interventions; and

define meaningful clinician participation in their activity, describe the mechanism for identifying clinicians who meet the requirements, and provide participant completion information.

Disclosures

In accordance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education’s Standards for
Commercial Support, all CME providers are required to disclose to the activity audience the
relevant financial relationships of the planners, teachers, and authors involved in the
development of CME content. An individual has a relevant financial relationship if he or she has
a financial relationship in any amount occurring in the past 12 months with a commercial
interest whose products or services are discussed in the CME activity content over which the
individual has control. Relationship information appears above.

Unlabeled and Investigational Usage

The audience is advised that this continuing medical education activity may contain references
to unlabeled uses of US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved products or to products not
approved by the FDA for use in the United States. The faculty members have been made aware of
their obligation to disclose such usage. All activity participants will be informed if any
speakers/authors intend to discuss either non–FDA-approved or investigational use of
products/devices.